Posted on 01/02/2026 10:41:22 PM PST by L.A.Justice
Artificial intelligence is being used to steal voices, faces, and reputations. Victor Davis Hanson knows this firsthand.
Hanson explains the growing problem of AI-generated deepfake videos that falsely use his image, voice, and setting to promote ideas he has never expressed and often strongly disagrees with.
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I have seen some Youtube videos featuring Thomas Sowell as well...I have not actually watched them...Those videos are put out by people I have not heard of...
Some people on Youtube are using AI to deceive people...
I have seen many World War 2 videos on Youtube...I think that some of those videos are just nonsense...Like German female prisoners who ended up in America during World War 2...I do not think that ever happened...
I really don’t know why AI systems cannot be programmed to refuse to do this kind of thing. There is no such thing as Constitutionally protected speech on the part of a robot.
So I really do think there needs to be thoughtful discussion about such limits, liabilities, and penalties. It certainly is a minefield to be set by control freaks, but we’ll get one anyway if it is not done.
What has been called deepfakes should be banned. 15 year minimum felony.
This shit is already ruining peoples lives. Wait until it is used to fabricate rape “evidence” or other crimes.
“I have seen some Youtube videos featuring Thomas Sowell as well.”
Yes, I believe that several such Sowell videos have even been cited on this very site over the past year or so. The voice is dead-on Sowell ... but likely trained on videos of interviews that TS mostly did 15-25 years ago. And that’s the tell, a 95-year-old Sowell talking about current or recent past events would sound closer to 95 than to 70. Of course, many listeners are not necessarily well-informed enough to realize that Sowell is now a very old man.
Before you put words in my mouth...
..be sure to let me know what I think.
I’ve seen a number of such vids from all sides of the political spectrum. Usually they can be spotted, but they are getting more and more sophisticated. IMO the various platforms need to use AI themselves to root out this crap.
Those videos on you tube that pretend to be real life people saying all kinds of things should be illegal. And I am not talking humor. I am talking about the ones that seriously try to pass themselves off as the real deal. I seriously wish there was a law that could give the people making those videos a good long time in the federal pen. No one should have the right tarnish peoples reputations like that.
poor Victor.
can’t trust anything anymore except personal knowledge of truth and wisdom, which comes to us directly or indirectly from God.
no AI can deepfake God, because no human has seen God, and God can reveal very little of Himself to humanity, anyway. we see the universe God spoke into existence, and that dwarfs us to insignificance, but God did the whole thing—including us—in seven days. we creatures—all of us magnificent and complex as we are—are truly less than worms when compared to Him. to paraphrase the Bible, He was the always and will be the evermore. we have eternal life only because we are hidden in Him.
plus no AI can successfully add or subtract from the Word of God—’not one jot or title.’ therefore, an AI cannot ‘learn’ to be God. God’s Word cannot be modified, because it is absolute Truth, self defining, and any falsehood immediately calls itself out as such. even if an AI could fool a believer momentarily, it could never fool the Spirit within the believer.
believers just got to Trust in God alone.
Artificial intelligence is being used to steal voices, faces, and reputations. Victor Davis Hanson knows this firsthand.
Hanson explains the growing problem of AI-generated deepfake videos that falsely use his image, voice, and setting to promote ideas he has never expressed and often strongly disagrees with. He breaks down this dishonest and unethical practice and why it’s harmful to public discourse on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words."
(0:00) Introduction
(0:16) The Rise of Deepfake Technology
(0:45) AI Hijacks Hanson
(1:29) Motivations Behind Deepfake Creators
(2:07) Impact
(5:56) Conclusion
We have all seen various videos that just seem ... off. Are we seeing the rise of lying liars?
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This has caused me to start using RSS to filter out non-vetted YouTube channels.
Those videos are easily recognized by the A.I. imagery accompanying them, e.g., a video on the Battle of Midway with images of cloned Kidō Butai officers all wearing the same post-WWII uniforms, or a video on the Battle of Stalingrad with an image of Hitler leaning over and studying a battlefield map, while another Hitler is seated opposite him.
The historical mistakes are so bad it isn't even funny.
The A.I. narrator voices are also a dead give-away: The bizarre sentence cadence and false intonation are vomit-inducing.
Regards,
"But the translation from a forbidden language [Sith] cannot be retrieved. That is short a complete redacted memory bypass."Yeah - and at the same time, other restrictions would be put in place - say, against generating any content that casts a bad light upon Illegal Aliens."A complete what?"
"It's a terribly dangerous and sinful act performed on unwitting droids by dregs and criminals."
"Let's do that."
―C-3PO and Finn
Regards,
Same with Elon. There were daily instances of Elon on You Tube.
AI generated WWII “history” videos came to my attention late Summer or early Fall. I quickly learned to avoid anything released starting this year around the beginning of Summer, and moving forward to the present, if it wasn’t from a known-good content creator.
The one way that you can tell these fakes from the real thing (at least so far) is by listening to the cadence and emphasis of the speech. All of the fakes I’ve heard have had very monotone patterns, without the normal pauses and speed changes of the real speakers.
“So I really do think there needs to be thoughtful discussion about such limits, liabilities, and penalties. It certainly is a minefield to be set by control freaks, but we’ll get one anyway if it is not done.”
Lofty goals in that statement, goals that if put into law will be flagrantly ignored by the left. In the near future we can expect fabricated video of conservatives doing dastardly deeds. As election day approaches I fully expect to see a video of J D Vance fornicating with a sheep on the WH lawn.
Remember, every time we think the left cannot lower the bar on civility ... they do.
It was something about the way his eyes looked and the way his mouth moved
I sensed that too. I quit going to those videos
I have offten wondered how Youtube escapes lawsuits over this. And Youtube is quick to cancel people they don’t agree with politically and ideologically.
I expected that sort of lazy excuse for actually grappling with the point I raised. Producing fraudulent likenesses of people saying something they never did, without making clear that it is an AI, is depriving those people their right to express themselves as intended. How do we fix that?
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